Documenting the evidence and the policy case for fair, transparent, merit-based veterinary licensure.
Six-figure bonuses, closed clinics, and rural care deserts point to a deeper problem: AVMA and ICVA supply gates that control who can enter veterinary medicine.
Read →America has too few veterinarians — in some counties, none at all. Yet for fifty years one organization has forecast a surplus while holding the lock on the gate into the profession — an arrangement the Justice Department has now told a federal court is not above the antitrust laws.
Read →607,000 shelter animals were euthanized in 2024 while shelter and nonprofit veterinary jobs sit empty. The shortage isn’t an abstraction — it’s measured in lives, and it’s solvable.
Read →Accreditation lets veterinary schools teach differently, yet the NAVLE tests every graduate the same — on a blueprint written partly by faculty from those same schools. When the only historically Black veterinary college’s pass rate fell from nine in ten to barely half, no public data could explain why.
Read →A private monopoly controls the one exam that decides who may practice veterinary medicine. When critics said it was unfair, it didn't open the books — it changed the rules and called the result an audit.
Read →The official forecast promises a surplus by 2030. Rebuild the math from the animals up — who actually needs care, and who's actually left to provide it — and a deep, widening shortage appears instead. With the full report.
Read →The power to decide who can train, test, and practice as a veterinarian has been handed to private organizations that answer to no one. That's the root of the shortage.
Read →Farm country is losing its veterinarians. The cause isn't a lack of people who want the job; it's a system designed to keep their numbers low.
Read →A single trade association controls both who graduates from a U.S. veterinary school and who enters from abroad. No other major profession concentrates that much power in one private body.
Read →The shortage was built by policy choices. It can be unbuilt the same way — and human medicine already shows how.
Read →Veterinary ethics usually means how a vet treats your animal. But the deepest ethical failure in the profession is structural: a system that keeps good veterinarians out.
Read →Small farmers can do real things today to manage veterinary costs — and there's a structural reason those costs keep climbing.
Read →NAVEC exists to bring competition, transparency, and public oversight to a profession whose gates are held by two private organizations. Here's the case, and the campaign.
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